Schools or markets? : commercialism, privatization, and school-business partnerships / edited by Deron R. Boyles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyles, Deron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business and education--United States.

Business and education.

Commercialism in schools--United States.

Commercialism in schools.

Privatization in education--United States.

Privatization in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, NJ : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include: *privatization of school food services;*oil company ads that act as educational policy statements;*a parent's view of his child's experiences in a school that encourages school-business partnerships;*commercialization and school administration; *teacher union involvement in the school-business partnership craze currently sweeping the n

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 The Privatization of Food Services in Schools: Undermining Children's Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education; Chapter 2 Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling: The ExxonMobil Agenda for Education; Chapter 3 Priming the Pump: "Educating" for Market Democracy; Chapter 4 Jesus in the Temple: What Should Administrators Do When the Marketplace Comes to School?; Chapter 5 Teachers, Unions, and Commercialization; Chapter 6 Children as Collateral Damage: The Innocents of Education's War for Reform

Chapter 7 Private Knowledge, Public Domain: The Politics of Intellectual Property in Higher EducationChapter 8 The Two-Way Street of Higher Education Commodification; Chapter 9 Egocentrism in Professional Arts Education: Toward a Discipline-Based view of Work and World; Chapter 10 Controlling the Power Over Knowledge: Selling the Crisis for Self-Serving Gains; Chapter 11 The Exploiting Business: School-Business Partnerships, Commercialization, and Students as Critically Transitive Citizens; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-60692-7

1-282-32270-2

9786612322709

1-4106-1164-7

9781410611642

OCLC:

475970339